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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition cover artvsMetal Warriors cover art

Lost Planet: Extreme ConditionvsMetal Warriors

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Metal Warriors leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Lost Planet: Extreme ConditionMetal Warriors

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Metal Warriors leans harder on execution: Mech control, jetpack movement and aimed fire demand dexterity

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition leans harder on variance: Campaign encounters are fixed

Optimization4 vs 4

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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